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Electrophoretic deposition: an attractive approach to fabricate graphite anode for flexible Li-ion rechargeable cells

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In this present study, we explore the efficacy of facile electrophoretic deposition technique to fabricate well-adhered and flexible graphite electrode on carbon cloth current collector. In order to fabricate the graphite anode, an electrostatically stabilized graphite-carbon black suspension has been prepared in isopropyl alcohol using polyacrylic acid as dispersant and nickel nitrate as charging agent. The EPD technique allows uniform, porous, and well-adhered coating on each strands of the carbon cloth. The graphite electrode delivers a reversible capacity of ~ 380 mAh/g at a specific current of 100 mA/g and when subjected to a log-term cycling at a specific current of 500 mA/g, it exhibits a specific capacity of ~ 248 mAh/g after 250 cycles. The EPD electrode also demonstrates excellent rate performance delivering a specific capacity of 115 mAh/g at a high specific current of 4000 mA/g. Moreover, upon reducing the specific current to 100 mA/g, it is able to recover ~ 96% of its initial reversible capacity indicating the ability of such EPD grown electrode to withstand a wide range of specific current without any permanent setbacks to its structural or electrochemical properties. Thus, electrophoretic deposition technique can be a potential alternative to fabricate flexible graphite electrodes.

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Sarmistha Basu gratefully acknowledges the full financial support for the present work by the Department of Science & Technology under WOS—A scheme vide their sanction No. SR/WOS – A/PM – 54/2019 (G) dated 12 – 11 – 2020. She also acknowledges the lab facilities provided by the Department of Physics, Central Research Facilities and Materials Science Center for the successful execution of the present work. The authors like to acknowledge the FESEM facility sponsored by DST-FIST at Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for scanning electron microscopy experiments.

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This work was supported by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India [Grant No. SR/WOS – A/PM – 54/2019 (G) dated 12 – 11 – 2020].

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  3. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India

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Das, D., Majumder, S.B., Dhar, A. et al. Electrophoretic deposition: an attractive approach to fabricate graphite anode for flexible Li-ion rechargeable cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 13110–13123 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08250-5

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